Ruby CD-ROM Test Masters

Ruby features thought-provoking selections by authors including Elizabeth Friedrich, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Carol Fisher Saller while providing a foundation for building strong language, reasoning, and writing skills. The book enables the student reader to explore universal themes like courage, loyalty, compassion, and fair play through short stories. An innovative extensive poetry unit comprised of six dynamic lessons introduces fourth grade learners to the pleasure of understanding poetry and its complexity.

Visually appealing Texts are organized by story elements and include author biographies, vocabulary, footnotes, and “Blueprints for Reading” to encourage analytical skills. The consumable Workbooks include vocabulary activities, comprehension questions, writing activities, and graphic organizers. The comprehensive Teacher’s Editions (two volumes at this level) contain reduced student pages, background teaching information, discussion questions with answers, answers to the questions found at the end of each selection, answers to workbook questions, and creative writing assignment pointers. Effective use of the course requires the Textbook, Workbook, and Teacher’s Editions which are conveniently available in the Homeschool Bundle.